Photo – Kyu – the conclusion of a cut. Photo by Rick Frye, 2014  Today I have the pleasure of introducing a guest blog on jo-ha-ky...

Yoshunkan Dojo. Photo Copyright Peter Boylan 2016  Practice in Japan has a different feel from training in the U.S.. In Japan, ...

  Tamahagane, traditional steel, is filled with impurities and requires repeated heating and hammering just to get the impurities out. On...

I have this crazy idea that budo is not about controlling the world.  It's not about imposing our will on the world.  It's no...

The Way that can be told of is not an Unvarying Way; The names that can be named are not unvarying names. It was from the Nameles...